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Tips
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Unk's
Shotgun Snare Driveby Freakout Fill <<having
said that i have a question. frequently in
electronica, right after a drop out of the beat
(typical in trance) you'll get a slow progressive
synth buildup, right before the beat hits back in
sometimes you'll hear a rapid buildup of lighter
beats. what's interesting about these beats is that
the tempo for them is rapidly increasing as it
approaches the point where the beat is brought back
in. how could i do this with the
asr-x?>> Welcome
aboard. The effect of which you speak, if I
understand correctly, is the Rapidly Increasin
Snare Shotgun Driveby Freakout, no? Where the roll
the before the beat comes in is so fast, it makes
you wanna vom your Smart Drink? It's
actually quite a simple illusion, involving
progressively smaller subdivision of the beat, and
progressively louder velocity. Check it
out: 1)
Program one bar of eighth notes (real time, then
quantize, or set your Step to 1/8) 2)
program one bar of 16th notes 3)
one bar of 32nd notes 4)
one bar of 64th notes Now,
playback - neat eh? Not quite yet. Now tweak
thusly: 1)
make sure you have Appended the 4 sequences
together into one 4 bar sequence 2)
program progressively louder velocities throughout
the entire 4 bar sequence. If you're doing this
with a graphic editor, it's quite easy to get the
slope; on the X, doing it step by step can be long
and experimental. So, go into Record Mode=Track Mix
and do a fade in with the Expression value,
gradually over the 4 bars. 3)
once you have a smooth kick-ass "crescendo" as we
say in Italian, you can stay in Track Mix mode and
play with the other parameters - do a wild
cross-pan, start the cutoff freq low and bring it
higher, resonance, etc. Cool
eh? But it gets COOLER: 1)
erase what you've just done, or go to a New
seq. 2)
resample your fave snare, Send to Pads, and map
that sample across the keyboard (Choose SMPL_1 from
the custom menu as the SOUND). Now, instead of just
wanking on the same smelly old snare note, do your
4 bars of fill in the same manner as before, but
play each snare hit one note higher than the last -
like playing a chromatic scale up the keyboard. Do
this in step mode, on your controller, or on the X
if you're *really* fast with the Octave Transpose
button ;-P . 3)
now add your Track mix whackiness, including fade
in, cutoff freq, etc. Neat, huh? Anyhow, that's how
it really is done. You can do it with any sound
really - sounds neat with a transient hit; try
going down the scale instead of up, for a neat
effect - or program two tracks: one going down, one
going up, and cross-pan them. Gayspansion
craziness! unk. |
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